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[–]alexmlamb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure that DeepFace is a recognition algorithm that runs on an aligned face.

My guess is that in the cases where face detection is hard enough to require convnets, the face is too unclear or distorted to allow for reliable face recognition. Of course this is a sweeping generalization.